Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 02:54:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: x86-64 support Message-ID: <200304280054.h3S0sTi2006266@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20030427065621.G40030-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message: <20030427064014.H40030-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
> > Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> writes:
> > : option USE_PI_DIGITS 100
> >
> > Only if you could implement it with integer math :-)
>
> where's the problem in that ? most mp libs use integer arithmetic, and
> x86-64 gives you 64x64->128 bit widening multiplies 8-)
You don't need that; the digits of pi can be calculated
quite easily with integer math. This snippet is from my
signature collection:
int f[9800],b,c=9814,g,i;long a=1e4,d,e,h;main(){for(;b=c,c-=14;i=printf(
"%04d",e+d/a),e=d%a)while(g=--b*2)d=h*b+a*(i?f[b]:a/5),h=d/--g,f[b]=d%g;}
Of course it doesn't comply with style(9), otherwise it
wouldn't fit into two lines. Prettifying (de-obfuscating)
it to make it style(9)-compliant is left as an exercise to
the reader. ;-)
Regards
Oliver
PS: The number of digits is specified by the iteration
counter c which starts at 9814 in this case, producing
2800 digits (35 rows on an 80-columns terminal). The
counter should be initialized with (digits / 4 + 1) * 14.
Don't forget to make the f[] array sufficiently large.
--
Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law, from Profiles of the Future
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